Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic known for combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian-Marxist theory in analyses of ideology, popular culture, film, and politics. He is a prolific author and public intellectual.
Books
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1. Lacrimae Rerum
A sharp, provocative collection of essays that mixes literary criticism, psychoanalytic insight, and political theory to read cultural texts as symptoms of contemporary ideology and melancholy; moving from close readings of novels and films to reflections on Hegelian and Lacanian thought, the pieces argue that artworks expose and perpetuate deep social anxieties and antagonisms, forcing a confrontation with the tragic, ambivalent dimensions of modern subjectivity and the fantasies that sustain it.
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3. Pandemia
COVID-19 Shakes the World
A brisk, polemical reflection on the global coronavirus emergency that reads the pandemic as a revealing crisis: it exposes capitalism’s fragilities and inequalities, undermines liberal individualism and neoliberal governance, and forces a reassessment of collective solutions such as robust public health systems, science-led policy, and international solidarity. The essays probe ideological reactions and caution that emergency measures can slide into lasting surveillance and authoritarianism even as they demonstrate the need for decisive state intervention, and they argue the moment could open space for systemic transformation—revaluing care work, reorganizing production and supply chains, and imagining emancipatory political alternatives.
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4. Como Ler Lacan
A compact, provocative guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis that introduces central concepts—mirror stage, the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary, objet petit a, and jouissance—and shows how they illuminate subjectivity, desire and ideology; through readings of literature, film and clinical vignettes, the book interprets Lacan with Hegelian and Marxist inflections to argue that his theory exposes the unconscious structures shaping politics and everyday fantasies, making a difficult body of thought accessible while also offering a forceful critique of contemporary culture.
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